Health Transformer Showcase Presented by StartUp Health

Join StartUp Health, which is organizing and supporting a global army of Health Transformers, for an exciting showcase of companies reimagining the future of health. Entrepreneurs representing a broad spectrum of digital health innovation will present on provider solutions, patient engagement, care access, practice workflows and big data.

Keynote Address: Vice President Joe Biden

In his final State of the Union address, President Obama put Vice President Biden in charge of a new national effort to end cancer as we know it. The goal of this Cancer moonshot is to double the rate of progress toward a cure - to make a decade of advances in cancer prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and care in five years.

Lunch Discussion with Dr. Martin Harris: IT's About Patient Care

The future of healthcare is here. Join Dr. Martin Harris, Chief Information Officer of Cleveland Clinic, and author of the new book, IT's About Healthcare, to hear what it means to transform healthcare information technology the "Cleveland Clinic Way."

Welcome & Introduction

Policy Crossfire: Medical Innovation and the 2016 Election

Stephanie Cutter, former Deputy Campaign Manager to President Obama, will debate Terry Holt, former National Spokesman for the 2004 Bush-Cheney presidential campaign, over what's at stake with regards to the future of the policy side of medical innovation. What will be the noticeable impacts on our industry in the next four years?

Investing in Healthcare's New Era

A panel of investing experts will share their perspective on the ever-changing future of healthcare. Panelists will discuss the full journey that an entrepreneur faces today, from angel investing and venture capital to co-development and acquisition.

Dinner and Fireside Chat: Omar Ishrak, Chairman & CEO, Medtronic

Operationalizing and Scaling Value-Based Healthcare
Medtronic believes that the current healthcare system is not sustainable and needs to be transformed to improve patient outcomes and control rising healthcare costs. In order to ahieve value-based healthcare (VBHC). Medtronic believes there are three important foundations for innovation that are required to succeed in a VBHC environment: understanding the economic value of our innovation, broadening the innovation horizon to ensure value is relized, and collaborating with partners to generate newbusiness models. As the largest medical technology company in the world, Medtronic has a unique role to play in ensuring technology an dinnovation are leveraged to their fullest as we evolve in the shift to VBHC. To achieve that goal and fulfill our Mission, we are actively partnering to help lead this transformation.

The State of Healthcare Innovation

Some of the nation's leading healthcare executives examine recent policy impacts, cost reduction strategies, medical innovation funding and the overall health of medical research and innovation in the US.

Daniel Kraft: Tech tsunami in healthcare coming, but are there right platforms to catch wave?

Last week at the Cleveland Clinic’s annual Medical Innovations Summit, Daniel Kraft, chair of medicine and neuroscience at Singularity University, and an oncologist, painted a dazzling picture of a healthcare future where digital tools empower everyone and can solve several of healthcare’s bigger problems.

10 Breakthroughs That Are Poised To Transform Our Health in 2017

Immunotherapy that helps kids fight cancer without chemo. Automated cars that reduce accidents and hospitalizations. Virtual reality systems that help surgeons carry out procedures more safely. These are some of the medical innovations that could transform health care in 2017, according to the Cleveland Clinic, a large nonprofit hospital system.

Cleveland Proves Itself a Powerhouse in Biomedical Innovation

VPOTUS Talks Cancer Research During Ohio Campaign Stop

Former First Daughter Chelsea Clinton will be making campaign appearances for her mother in Columbus, Cleveland and Cincinnati on Wednesday.

The campaign of Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton has not released any details on the appearances of Chelsea Clinton. Meanwhile, Vice President Joe Biden stumped in Cleveland yesterday for Hillary Clinton. He also spoke about boosting cancer research. Kevin Niedermier of member station WKSU in Kent reports.

Vice President Biden Pushes in Clevthe 'Moon Shot' for Cancer Research

Health care innovation accelerating on different track from other industries

Addressing the state of health care innovation at the 2016 Medical Innovation Summit sponsored by Cleveland Clinic Innovations, a diverse panel of executives from disparate segments of the health care system agreed on one general principle: The industry is changing rapidly and in ways that look different from the face of innovation in any other industry.

Joe Biden talks Cancer Moonshot at Cleveland Clinic innovation summit

CLEVELAND, Ohio--Vice President Joe Biden opened this year's Cleveland Clinic medical innovation summit with a talk about what he deemed "the only bipartisan thing left in the United States of America"-- the fight against cancer. Speaking about his Cancer Moonshot initiative, launched in January, Biden told a roomful of doctors, healthcare executives and entrepreneurs that for millions of people across the country affected by cancer, this work is urgent. "They're not asking to live, they're not ..

Vice President Joe Biden. The outgoing veep surprised volunteers for Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton by dropping by a downtown Cleveland field office Monday, cleveland.com's Mary Kilpatrick reports. The stop followed official White House business – a speech about the Cancer Moonshot initiative at the Cleveland Clinic's medical innovation summit.

Joe Biden talks Cancer Moonshot at Cleveland Clinic innovation summit

CLEVELAND, Ohio--Vice President Joe Biden opened this year's Cleveland Clinic medical innovation summit with a talk about what he deemed "the only bipartisan thing left in the United States of America"-- the fight against cancer.